Shibden Hall to feature in new BBC drama
A MAN has been ordered to start his community order again after failing to show up for two appointments.
Simon Jennings, of Towngate Road in Batley, appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
He was handed the order in December for shop theft and ordered to complete six months of drug treatment and 10 days of rehabilitation activities.
The 30-year-old then missed his induction appointments on January 6 and 16 and pleaded guilty to breaching his court order. Mohammed Arif, mitigating, said that his client was suffering from stomach problems at the time.
He added that Jennings had a £20 a day addiction and was desperate to get rid of his heroin and crack cocaine habit.
Magistrates revoked Jennings’ original order and re-sentenced him to the same punishment, adding that he has to pay an additional £50 court costs.
To do this she must re-open her coal mines and marry well. But this isn’t just another Regency romance.
Charismatic, single-minded, swashbuckling Anne Lister – who walked like a man, dressed head-to-foot in black, and charmed her way into high society – has no intention of marrying a man.
True to her own nature, she plans to marry a woman. And not just any woman: the woman Anne Lister marries must be seriously wealthy.
Ms Wainwright, who is also director, said: “Anne Lister is a gift to a dramatist.
“She is one of the most exuberant, thrilling and brilliant women in British history, and I can’t wait to celebrate her.
“Landowner, industrialist, traveller, mountaineer, scholar, would-be brain surgeon and prolific diarist, Anne returns from years of travel to her ancestral home, determined to restore it to its former glory, and determined to marry Ann Walker.
“It’s a beautifully rich, complicated, surprising love story. To bring Anne Lister to life on screen is the fulfilment of an ambition I’ve had for 20 years.
“Shibden Hall is a place I have known and loved since I was a child. I’m also delighted to be working with Faith Penhale again and the wonderful team at Lookout Point after our collaboration on To Walk Invisible, and of course thrilled to be working with the BBC and HBO.”
Every part of Anne’s story is based on historical fact, recorded in the four million words of her diaries that contain the most intimate details of her life, once hidden in a secret code that is now broken.